KDDI's au phones to accept English disaster-time messages

Japanese company KDDI Corp has just announced that its disaster-time message transmission services via the au cell phone EZweb email function will accept English messages from July 14, writes Japan Today.

The services, which became available on Jan 31 for Japanese messages, will allow au-brand cell phone users to leave messages such as "safe," "sustained damage," and "staying at home" or "staying at a shelter" as well as a short comment on the message board of the EZweb email services.

Regine | 7:41 AM | Text Alerts |
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